Hi all,
Currently we are in the middle of upgrading our Citrix farm from 4.5/2003 to 6.5/2008 R2. In relation to TS Licensing, we are using per device CALs. The CALs are split between 2 2003 domain controllers that are published to the forest.
Licenses are checked out from both.
In our test environment for 6.5, I set up the same layout. I have 2 2008 R2 servers with just the RD Licensing role installed and I installed 500 per device licenses on each to start with. The servers are not published but I have specified in
group policy for the 6.5 test environment for the terminal servers to point to the 2 servers. The plan is shortly before we do go live, add all new licenses, publish them to the forest (because there are other apps that need the licenses beyond Citrix),
and retire the old license servers.
Now in the test environment, all licenses are being checked out from the server listed first in the group policy and none from the second server. I was thinking that they would split between the 2 on their own but I must be mistaken.
So here are my questions...
- Is there a way to force balancing now while they are only referenced in the GPO for the test farm?
- Once they are published to the forest, does that set it to load balance?
- If no load balancing occurs in either situation, does that mean that licenses will not be checked out on the second server until all licenses have been checked out on the first server?
- Is there a better implementation route I should have followed for 2008 R2?
Thanks!